The 5/2 profile (Heretic / Hermit) is one of the twelve profiles of Human Design, a modern esoteric system originated in 1987 by Ra Uru Hu and presented here as a contemporary framework rather than ancient wisdom. A profile is formed from two of the six lines, a scheme the system borrows from the six lines of an I Ching hexagram and reads psychologically: the profile pairs a conscious line with an unconscious one to give an archetypal role. The 5/2 profile joins the roles named Heretic / Hermit. The line names and their meanings are Human Design's own twentieth-century reading, not a claim inherited from the Chinese classic whose six-line figures suggested the structure; they are described here as the system presents them, not as verified fact.
Human Design describes the fifth line, Heretic or Universal, as a practical, crisis solving line that draws projection from people it has not met, cast as saviour or scapegoat; the second line, Hermit, is described as carrying a natural talent largely hidden from the person themselves, needing solitude and needing to be called out by others. The 5/2 profile is accordingly described, in the system's own teaching, as a marked contrast between an exposed, publicly projected upon conscious line and a private, retreating unconscious one, so that a person carrying this profile is said to be pulled outward by others' expectations while a genuinely reclusive talent operates underneath, largely out of view.